Christina's LIS Rant
This is my blog on library and information science.
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Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
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- Yeah, me too.
- Very cool - American Physical Society offers free access to public libraries
- Michael Pater, Connecticut artist, died today
- Hey maybe scientists should do more than just wait for their journal to issue a press release on their new fabu article
- Well, sometimes you just have to Google it
- SIGIR 2010 is going on right now
- Across disciplines, what motivates or prevents faculty self archiving?
- Broke something last night - all fixed now
- Why this information industry land grab is different
- Library parody of the Old Spice ads - this is hilarious
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Christina K. Pikas
I'm a librarian at a university-affiliated research laboratory. We do mostly physical sciences and engineering. I do in-depth literature searching in collaboration with lab staff and I'm also embedded in a few teams. I also work on knowledge sharing initiatives within the lab, do collection development, and teach various how-to courses.
I'm also a doctoral student at the iSchool at the University of Maryland. I study lots of different areas in information science, but I'm primarily interested in how social computing technologies impact informal scholarly communication in science. I'm getting ready to do my comprehensive exams - so wish me luck!
I'm a member of SLA (Physics-Astronomy-Math and Chemistry Divisions; DC and Maryland Chapters) and ASIS&T.
My old blog (2004-2009) is also called Christina's LIS Rant
